Good riddance
But may it perhaps be a case of out of the frying pan into the fire?
I’ve been waiting for the day when Blair will be gone for a long time. The problem is we’re still stuck with a political class which is still after more and more power at the expense of our liberty.
Brown quietly supported Blair. He didn’t rock the boat too much, he’s funded Iraq, the database state, the intrusion on our freedoms. He’s possibly even worse when it comes to his desire to manage and control people. Brown is a classic socialist who’s had to come to terms with the fact that direct economic control is not possible so he’s trying for control regulation and removal of liberties.
On the other side we have Cameron and the Tories. There’s been no spirited defense of liberty from them. As far as we know what Cameron stands for its regulation and ’social responsibility’.
So, forgive me if I don’t celebrate much. We’re just stuck with more of the same politicians.
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June 27th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
To quote you: “The problem is we’re still stuck with a political class which is still after more and more power at the expense of our liberty…We’re just stuck with more of the same politicians.”
Your description predicates a certain level of exclusivity between the political class and wider populace - surely they are in truth one and the same, simultaneously the whole and of the whole. The false vocabulary of ‘us&them’ accepts the denial of the decicive role played by active participation in democracy, ultimately denying the democratic voice itself.
WE will continue to be plagued by the same old faces until and unless more people stand up to place a coherent and concerted challenge, and while WE continue WE will deserve everything in which WE acquiesce.
The weakness of democracy is it’s dependance on complete education; Brown’s weakness is his anti-democratic nature, which admits the (wilfull) failure of society to educate adequately and suggests an intellectual insecurity on his own behalf.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
No. The political classes are not ordinary people. They are a self-selected group who want power.
They are usually from a privileged elite (especially in the Labour Party) and most seem to be lawyers.
Politics is now a career. The number of MPs who have not had any work outside parliament is horrifying, and its getting worse all the time.